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  • When I first heard AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” as a kid, I thought they were singing, “Dirty Deeds and The Thunder Chief” and assumed it was the street names of a pair of Native American hit men. I didn’t learn the actual lyrics until a decade or so later, but I choose to continue hearing it the other way.

  • US here, and yes, easily. I have WhatsApp installed on my phone but it's probably been over a year since I used it last. SMS, email, and Facebook Messenger are the media of choice in my social circle. Work communication is over Slack and email.

    But if someone wanted to use WhatsApp to talk to me, I'd use it without being bothered much.

  • Saw this at the Comic-Con screening and it works better than I expected, especially the physical comedy. The exaggerated cartoon antics are still there, but toned down just enough to not seem out of place in live action.

  • The current system of job seeking often requires to lie on resume.

    This has not been my experience at all, but maybe it depends on what kinds of jobs you’re seeking.

    In my line of work, detecting lies on resumes is one of the reasons we spend time interviewing candidates. If you are caught out in a lie, you can kiss any chance of an offer goodbye. As an interviewer I have never knowingly given a “hire” vote to a lying candidate and if I did, I wouldn’t have my job much longer.

  • I find that setup an obnoxious user experience. Instead of one hotkey that tells my password manager to fill out the login form, now I have to switch to my mail app, wait for the login email to arrive (if my mail provider or the site’s mail provider is having trouble, no login for me!) then back to my browser where I need to close the original tab because clicking the email link opened a new one.

    If I am on a shared computer, now I need to either manually copy a long URL from my phone or read my email on that computer, a much bigger security risk than just entering a password and 2FA code.

  • Commander Reid Wiseman and his crewmates—pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen—were named to the Artemis II crew on April 3.

    "Hello, crewmate! What are you doing on this mission?"

    "I'm the pilot. You?"

    "I'm the Canadian."

  • What metric did they use to determine what “top 10%” means? Because that’s the part of this that seems most ridiculous to me given how situation-dependent most engineering decisions are. To illustrate with an extreme example: is “daily+ deployment frequency” a sign of an amazing engineering org if the thing being deployed is updates to your heart monitor firmware?

  • The "developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial activity" condition is part of why people are up in arms about this. If I'm at work and I run into a bug and submit a patch, my patch was developed in the course of a commercial activity, and thus the project as a whole was partially developed in the course of a commercial activity.

    How many major open-source projects have zero contributions from companies?

    It also acts as a huge disincentive for companies to open their code at all. If I package up a useful library I wrote at work, and I release it, and some other person downloads it and exposes a vulnerability that is only exploitable if you use the library in a way that I wasn't originally using it, boom, my company is penalized. My company's lawyers would be insane to let me release any code given that risk.

  • Being rich is often the answer, but also, it is possible to travel much more inexpensively than most tourists do if you don’t care so much about comfort and predictability. Go in off seasons. Ride the cheapest class of public transport to get around. Couchsurf or stay in sketchy hostels. Cook your own food or eat where the locals eat instead of at the places where the staff speaks perfect English.

    Do they already have savings enough to support until they retire?

    No reason to assume they won’t get jobs after they’re done traveling.

  • Yes, but much less than I used to. When I don’t have a particular goal in mind and just want to doomscroll a bit, I find myself checking Lemmy first, and only if I run out of things to read, which I usually don’t, do I move on to Reddit.

    There are still some niche communities that are active on Reddit and not here. So I do still go over there on purpose for those.

  • I'm curious about the timing of this, because it seems to me that doing this while the writers are striking gives the actors less leverage. A bunch of productions are already shut down due to the writers' strike, so the actors on those productions also being on strike doesn't delay production or cost the studios any additional money.

    Obviously not all productions were already shut down, so the strike does hurt the studios, but if I were a studio exec, I'd much rather have all the strikes happen at the same time to minimize the cost to me.

  • Maybe they can redo FFXII and finish the story. That one pissed me off at the time: the story was just starting to build up steam and then nope, ignore all the plot threads we’ve been weaving, here’s a final boss battle out of the blue, end of game. Apparently it was having major schedule and budget overruns and the original director left for health reasons halfway through the project.